Filler for radiator pans



Nov. 20, 1928.

W. H. HINZ FILLER FOR RADIATOR FANS Filed Nov. 19, 1927 Patented Nov. 20, 1928. I

UNITED STATES WILLIAM I-I HINZ, 'OFOAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

FILLER FOR RADIATOR PANS.

Application filed November 19, 1927. Serial No 234,352.

It is a common practice to hang evaporating pans behind radiators to provide moisture in a room heated by such radiators. pans are ordinarily hung so that their tops 5 are at some distance below the tops of, the radiators, in order that the pans will be con cealed from view; and therefore it is diflicult to pour water into the pans without spilling the water and splashing the walls.

The object of the present invention is to produce a simple and novel device that may be applied to one pan after another and permit the pans to be easily filled without danger of spilling the water or splashing the walls.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is characterized will hereinafter be pointed out with particularity in" the claim; but, for a full understanding of'my invention and of its objects and advantages,

reference may be had to thefollowing detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein: a Figure 1 is an end View of a radiator placed near a wall and having my improved attachment applied to an evaporating pan on the radiator; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the radiator with the evaporating pan and'filling attachment; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section through the attachment; and Fig. 4 is a section taken approximately on line 44 of Fig. 3. 1

My improvement consists of a funnel-like device comprising a tubular body member 1 and an enlarged head portion 2 which is preferably in the form of an inverted frustum of a cone. The part 1 may conveniently be cylindrical; while the head section is preferably flattened on one side, as indicated at 3, so that the plane of its outer face is tangent to'the tubular body portion. The lowerend of the body portion is flattened, as indicated at 4, on

the same side as that on which theflattened lower end of the tubular member, the clip is not required to project considerably beyond the rear face of the device.

In using the device, assuming that A represents an evaporating pan on a radiator B The in place on the .pan.

placed near the wall C of a room; it is simply slipped down behind the radiator with the lower end of the tubular member pressed against the inner face of the rear wall of the pan; whereupon the clip will pass down the rear or outer face of the rear wall of the pan. It is therefore preferable that the lower end of the clip terminate above the bottom of the tubular member, so that the latter may be in I serted a short distance in the pan without inter ference from the clip. Since the clip, which is preferably made of resilient metal, is flat on its inner face, and the wall of the tube opposite is also flat, the device will be suppoured into the filling device without danger of spilling. After one pan has been filled, the filling device is removed by lifting it up, and it may then be applied to another pan; the filling device being'removed andlaid away, so as to be out of sight, until it must be I brought into use again.

It will thus be seen that I have produced a simple, novel and inexpensive means for permit-ting radiator pans to be easily filled, without requiring the pans to be placed high up on the radiators, and without making it necessary to have permanent attachments that are normally visible. 7

IVhile I have illustrated and described with particularity only a single preferred form of my invention, I do not desire tobe limited to the exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend to cover all forms and arrangements which come within the definitions-of myinvention constituting the appended claim.

I claim r A filling device for radiator pans 'compris ing an open-ended tubular member havingan enlarged upper end, rear side of said enlarged end bein in the same vertical Jlaue as the rearmost vertical-part of the said tubular member the lower endof the rear wall of the and a, vertical .clip lying behind and secured at its-upper end to said displaced part of the rear wall of said tubular member;

In testimonywhercof, I sign this specification.

WILLIAM' YH. 'HINZ. 

